Alaska Native Heritage Month Lecture Series: The Great Blessing of the Water: Salmon and Indigenized Orthodoxy on the Nushagak River with Alan Boraas, noon, Sealaska Plaza, fourth floor boardroom. Free and open to the public. Bring your own lunch.

“Wadjda” — Thursday-Sunday, Nov. 14-17. Synopsis: Wadjda is a 10-year-old girl living in a suburb of Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. Although she lives in a conservative world, Wadjda is fun loving, entrepreneurial and always pushing the boundaries of what she can get away with. After a fight with her friend Abdullah, a neighborhood boy she shouldn’t be playing with, Wadjda sees a beautiful green bicycle for sale. She wants the bicycle desperately so that she can beat Abdullah in a race. But Wadjda’s mother won’t allow it, fearing repercussions from a society that sees bicycles as dangerous to a girl’s virtue. So Wadjda decides to try and raise the money herself. Just as she is losing hope of raising enough money, she hears of a cash prize for a Koran recitation competition at her school.

“McConkey” — Saturday, Nov. 16. Synopsis: “McConkey” is an examination of the legacy one athlete left to the progression of his sports, and the path he paved to conquer his dreams. Shane McConkey is revered as a pioneer of freeskiing and ski-BASE jumping, and through his talent and ability to use his trademark irreverent humor, he inspired countless lives. In a new film from Red Bull Media House in association with Matchstick Productions, McConkey celebrates the life of one of the world’s ultimate innovators.

“The Anonymous People” — Saturday, Nov. 16. Synopsis: “The Anonymous People” is a feature documentary film about the 23.5 million Americans living in long-term recovery from addiction to alcohol and other drugs. Deeply entrenched social stigma and discrimination have kept recovery voices silent and faces hidden for decades. The vacuum created by this silence has been filled by sensational mass media depictions of people in active addiction that continue to perpetuate a lurid public fascination with the dysfunctional side of what is a preventable and treatable health condition.

“Bad Grandpa” (R) — Synopsis: 86-year-old Irving Zisman is on a journey across America with the most unlikely companion: his 8-year-old grandson, Billy.

“Gravity” (PG-13) — In 2D and 3D. A medical engineer and an astronaut work together to survive after an accident leaves them adrift in space.

GLACIER CINEMAS

“Free Birds” (PG) — Synopsis: Two turkeys from opposite sides of the tracks must put aside their differences and team up to travel back in time to change the course of history - and get turkey off the holiday menu for good.

“About Time” (R) — Synopsis: At the age of 21, Tim discovers he can travel in time and change what happens and has happened in his own life. His decision to make his world a better place by getting a girlfriend turns out not to be as easy as you might think.

“Thor: The Dark World” (PG-13) — In 2D and 3D. Synopsis: Faced with an enemy that even Odin and Asgard cannot withstand, Thor must embark on his most perilous and personal journey yet, one that will reunite him with Jane Foster and force him to sacrifice everything to save us all.

“Ender’s Game” (PG-13) — Synopsis: The International Military seek out a leader who can save the human race from an alien attack. Ender Wiggin, a brilliant young mind, is recruited and trained to lead his fellow soldiers into a battle that will determine the future of Earth.

“Last Vegas” (PG-13) — Synopsis: Three sixty-something friends take a break from their day-to-day lives to throw a bachelor party in Las Vegas for their last remaining single pal.